Language Quote by Maggie Nelson

“At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“Has anyone ever told you that you use twenty words when five will do?”

— L.H. Cosway

“Like everything that's any good, it has about twenty different meanings.”

— Anthony Powell

“I don’t think Australians ever use a couple of words when twenty will do just fine.”

— Elle Lothlorien

“Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.”

— Alison Bechdel

“10. You have to deal with stuff on your own and that's all there is to it.”

— Adam Rapp

“Funny how at twenty-five you worry about not being taken seriously and take being a sex object for granted. Later you take being taken…

— Helen Fielding

“we can't escape the erotic vocabulary of our culture any more than we can escape language itself.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“The trouble with words is that no matter how much sense they make in theory, they can’t change what you feel inside.”

— Rebecca James

“Language, loose language, vague language becomes an out. Things happen.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“It seems unlikely that so much literature could be made from twenty-six letters. Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled down to one…

— Brenda Shaughnessy

“This principle, getting it out of place, off-limits, the basic principle of swearing, I understand and approve.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin